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Curacao: Pro-independence politician Helmin Wiels assassinated
Hodge said the Netherlands offered to help with the police investigation. He said there was “not a lot of details at the moment” about the assailant or assailants, “but we will use all the resources we can to solve this case.”
Images on TV station TeleCuracao showed some people crying outside the headquarters of Wiels’ political faction. Ivar Asjes, a member of the Pueblo Soberano party, described the slain man as a “great leader.”
“Those who are behind this murder will not achieve their goal,” Asjes said.
Local blogger and activist Jermain Ostiana said he was still trying to process the news of the apparent assassination on the small island of roughly 150,000 inhabitants.
“Curacao’s first political murder could have serious consequences,” he said.
Copyright 2013 The Associated Press
